One of the things I love, and I'm a voracious reader as well as a writer, is books that surprise me, that are not predictable.

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they had a profound effect on me. I'd read other fantasy before, but none of them that I loved like Tolkien.

O medo corta mais profundamente do que as espadas.

Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

I've said in many interviews that I like my fiction to be unpredictable. I like there to be considerable suspense.